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Learn New Skills

Learning new skills is a cornerstone of homesteading and self-sufficiency. Handy crafts like candle making, fiber arts, and soap making can add creativity and sustainability to your homestead. This section provides step-by-step guides to help you master these crafts, whether you’re making your own candles for light or gifts, spinning your own yarn, or creating natural soap. Discover the satisfaction of making useful, handmade items from scratch.

Soap Making

Homemade Tallow Soap

Fiber Arts

Beginner’s Guide to Natural Dyes

Learn New Skills

How to Make Tallow (& Ways to Use It)

Soap Making

20+ Easy Soap Making Recipes for Beginners

Learn New Skills

Gravity Fed Household Water for Off-Grid Living

Preserve the Harvest

DIY Root Cellar Plans (Low Cost & Simple Design)

Learn New Skills

How to Rot a Tree Stump Fast

Emergency Preparedness

How to Install a Driveway Alarm

Beginner's Guides

Beginners Guide to Candlemaking

Candlemaking

How to Choose a Candle Wick (for Homemade Candlemaking)

Emergency Preparedness

100 Best Books for Self Reliant Living

Beginner's Guides

How to Use a Drop Spindle ~ Handspinning for Beginners

Learn New Skills

DIY Grow Lights for Seed Starting

Preserve the Harvest

DIY Apple Storage Rack

Emergency Preparedness

Pedal Powered Washing Machine for Off-Grid Laundry

Beginner's Guides

How to Make Soap ~ Soap Making for Beginners